diff --git a/components/fftsolver/src/pencilfft.F90 b/components/fftsolver/src/pencilfft.F90
index 021bfba2..9e8fad3c 100644
--- a/components/fftsolver/src/pencilfft.F90
+++ b/components/fftsolver/src/pencilfft.F90
@@ -370,6 +370,9 @@ subroutine transpose_to_pencil(transposition_description, source_dims, communica
 
     call rearrange_data_for_sending(real_source=source_data, real_target=real_temp)    
 
+    print *, "debug send_sizes", transposition_description%send_sizes
+    print *, "debug recv_sizes", transposition_description%recv_sizes
+
     call mpi_alltoallv(real_temp, transposition_description%send_sizes, transposition_description%send_offsets, &
          PRECISION_TYPE, real_temp2, transposition_description%recv_sizes, transposition_description%recv_offsets, &
          PRECISION_TYPE, communicator, ierr)
diff --git a/utils/archer2/monc_compile_archer2.sh b/utils/archer2/monc_compile_archer2.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..08dc5941
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/archer2/monc_compile_archer2.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+wget https://github.com/metomi/fcm/archive/2019.09.0.zip
+unzip 2019.09.0.zip 
+export PATH=$HOME/fcm-2019.09.0/bin:$PATH
+
+git clone https://github.com/Leeds-MONC/monc
+cd monc/
+
+module load cray-netcdf
+module load cray-fftw
+module load cray-hdf5
+# PETSC is not yet available, but will be made available according to
+# instructors on "Introduction to ARCHER2 for software developers" course
+# line below will make sure build can continue without PETSC
+export PETSC_DIR=""
+
+fcm make -f fcm-make/monc-cray-cray.cfg 
diff --git a/utils/archer2/submonc.slurm b/utils/archer2/submonc.slurm
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0cdf82a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/archer2/submonc.slurm
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#SBATCH --partition=standard
+#SBATCH --qos=standard
+
+#SBATCH --job-name=monc
+#SBATCH --nodes=1
+#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=5
+
+#SBATCH --time=00:10:00
+
+# set up default ARCHER2 job environment
+module load epcc-job-env
+
+module list
+
+if [ ! -d checkpoint_files ]; then mkdir checkpoint_files; fi
+if [ ! -d diagnostic_files ]; then mkdir diagnostic_files; fi
+
+# set env variables for submission command
+config_path='tests/straka_short.mcf'
+checkpoint_fn="checkpoint_files/straka_dump.nc"
+
+srun ./build/bin/monc_driver.exe --config=$config_path  --checkpoint_file=$checkpoint_fn